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Patersoncm

After much more head scratching, swopping wires, checking the wiring behind the dash etc etc and much frustration I have now (I believe) at last fixed the problem - although am left with a mystery. The solution was swopping over the blue/red (dipped beam) and blue/white (main beam) wires at the join...

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Thanks for your suggestions Syd/Jim. I have tried swapping over the dipped beam Blue/Red wires with the main beam Blue/White wires where they meet the main wiring loom. When swopped over the main and dip are the wrong way around and the flasher still results in the ignition warning light coming on. ...

Patersoncm

A simple job of replacing the rubber bodies from the front indicators has turned into many hours of head scratching! The work necessitated disconnecting the indicators (and I took the opportunity to also disconnect the headlamps to re-solder a bullet connector, and the horn as they needed to be &quo...

Patersoncm

Anthony
You may well be correct.
I would be interested to know whether any other SPs are around with the same carb vacuum balance pipe (if that is what it is!). Also any views as to whether this arrangement has any benefit.

Chris

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Hi Hans Thanks for the info. Have checked my insulators and note that my 1960 SP250 insulators are approx 3.5mm thick Those from my Jaguar bodied V8 engine are the same thickness as yours. I do note that my SP has a vacuum balance tube between the carbs (see photograph) which is not present in yours...

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In refitting my 1960 SP250 inlet manifold I noticed a small screw on the top as shown circled in the attached photograph. This is linked to the waterway and presumably was used to bleed the system. I note that the screw is not present on a later spare inlet manifold I have from a Jaguar bodied V8. C...

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When rebuilding my SP250 distributor I stripped down a spare distributor from a V250. I noticed that the V250 distributor had a circular felt oil impregnated disk. This was missing on my SP250 distributor. See attached photograph. I presume that all V8 distributors should have the felt disk.

Patersoncm

....and the alloy three way on the back axle.

Patersoncm

I had warm start problems with my SP250 which persisted and ended up replaced points, capacitor, rotor arm, distributor cap, coil (not to mention new fuel pump, fuel filter, checking timing, carb settings, valve clearances etc etc) and the problem persisted. Having aired my frustration on the forum ...

Patersoncm

: Extract from parts catalogue - Plate 20

The bolts should both point to the suspension turret as per the attached diagram. Hope this helps.

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